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Opinions: JavaScript

May 31, 2013 | 1 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

Can you spot the differences:

I'm convinced there is a need to replace JavaScript.

 

JavaScript was that component of the Web that everybody underestimated.
- Douglas Crockford

 

JavaScript is fast becoming a serious contender to Ruby and JVM languages.
- Aslak Hellesoy

 

This is probably the worst thing any server-side framework can do: be written in JavaScript.
- Ted Dziuba, Node.js is Cancer

 

JavaScript is now established as a powerful, mainstream language that can be used in a variety environments both on client and server sides.
- ThoughtWorks Technology Radar March 2012

 

A very large group of developers still thinks of JavaScript as a joke.
- Davy Brion

 

JavaScript used to be the thing that we tolerated… Now it became the technology leader.
- Douglas Crockford

 

JavaScript in the browser is the single largest development platform.
- 3rd-party JavaScript

 

JavaScript is a bubble. What is actually awesome about JavaScript has nothing to do with JavaScript.
- John Sonmez, Why JavaScript Is Doomed